Dujiangyan - Active Dujiangyan Sara Ebrahimi, United Arab Emirates
TAIOSM AREA
“The aim of the project is to create a balance between the living local inhabitants and
Sustainable Urban Dynamics
tourism”
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The aim of this project to create a balance between the living local inhabitants and tourism, where the residents can enjoy living in Dujiangyan and work rather then go to the bigger city Chengdu for work leasure. The main focal points are the housing that forms livable communities, promoting nature, tourism attractions and heritage. My strategy is to propose cultural hubs and active cultural streets that contribute to Dujiangyan’s tourism, and at the same adding an activity for the people who live in the site, therefore creating a vibrant and active city. The site’s main hub/attraction, the centre of the site, is the traditional Chinese garden, where people living in the city can visit and attract tourists at the same. An amphitheater for to enjoy a traditional Chinese theatre, a place for martial arts, to promote sports, workshop center where people can take part in handcrafts and paint and a Taoism center, where tourists can learn
about Taoism and for the people living there to practice it, also a cultural library. Tourists can easily visit the site as there are various bus stops and a train station. This strategy will attract tourists to come and see more of Dujiangyan. Also, it will be a create an attractive place for the people of Dujiangyan to live in. The housing typologies are developed in a way that the people living there have their own communities and separated from the tourists, to create a balance between the living inhabitants and tourists. There are different type of green areas proposed in the site, consisting of, private green areas, pock parks and neighborhood parks. I propose this concept as this site has potential to become a thriving place for the people living there while adding to the economy of Dujiangyan. These hubs will create job opportunities for the people living here, and will create places to attract a younger generation.
